Selected PoemsPenguin, 1988 M01 1 - 432 páginas
Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. This selection includes generous samplings from his longer works—Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Hiawatha—as well as his shorter lyrics and less familiar narrative poems. |
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... dreams of writing a romance but is always distracted, usually by others who take advantage of his good nature. Longfellow did better than that because, after all, he did finish his romance. Still, the portrait is a wry bit of self ...
... dream and wait for him longer? Are there not other youths as fair as Gabriel? others Who have hearts as tender and true; and spirits as loyal? Here is Baptiste Leblanc, the notary's son, who has loved thee Many a tedious year; come ...
... dream, an idle and vague superstition? Or has an angel passed, and revealed the truth to my spirit?“ Then, with a blush, she added, “Alas for my credulous fancy! Unto ears like thine such words as these have no meaning.“ But made answer ...
... eyes have looked on the woodlands around me! Ah! how often beneath this oak, returning from labor, Thou hast lain down to rest, and to dream of me in thy slumbers! When shall these eyes behold, these arms be folded about.
... dream, once more the home of his childhood; Green Acadian meadows, with sylvan rivers among them, Village, and mountain, and woodlands; and walking under their shadow, As in the days of her youth, Evangeline rose in his vision. Tears ...
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FROM THE SONG OF HIAWATHA | |
THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH | |
FROM TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN | |
THE NEW ENGLAND TRAGEDIES | |
FINALE SAINT JOHN | |
A PSALM OF LIFE WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO | |
THE SLAVE SINGING AT MIDNIGHT | |